Can I mass delete all comments?

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  jamianne · Member · Jun 23, 2010 at 4:42 am

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  I want to delete all comments, but it only lets me bulk delete 100 at a time. If I choose to view more than 100 comments at a time, select all, and move to trash, I get an error saying the request is too large. I have 6,100 comments I have to delete. Do I really have to click “move to trash” and wait for the page to load 61 times?

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  Jamianne

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 23, 2010 at 5:52 am

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  100 is the limit on the page display. You will have to do it 100 at a time.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 23, 2010 at 6:11 am

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  On certain themes, if you set it to disallow comments on your Settings->Discussion, it used to delete or at least hide all the comments. You could try that first. Sorry, I don’t know which themes, we just got reports of this a few times. And staff may have changed it in the last year.

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  jamianne · Member · Jun 23, 2010 at 6:23 am

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  No worries. It isn’t the end of the world to do it 100 at a time. My theme doesn’t auto-hide the comments when you disable commenting :/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 23, 2010 at 6:26 am

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  It doesn’t on any theme. The setting at settings > discussion would only apply to new comments from the time it was changed.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 23, 2010 at 6:33 am

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  No, I’m pretty sure I do remember someone who lost all comments on their blog when they changed it. They were pissed off! But that was probably three years ago now.